What a venerable, crude, and miraculously-preserved old pile it is!
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The place is venerable in years, and has a record reaching back for over seven centuries.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
His store was always open at seven in the morning, and the proprietor always opened it himself, with a great iron key that looked as venerable and substantial as the hale old gentleman whose companion it had been so many years; for it was not a key of the new sort, that might lock up a trifling man's affairs, but a key that seemed to say as plainly as could be that it had money and notes and valuable goods of many kinds in its charge.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe